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Make it possible to add the WooCommerce Product featured image from within the ticket meta-block in the event. I would be perfectly happy with either of three solutions:
1 reusing the header image
2 reusing the featured image of the event
3 selecting a separate image for just this reason.

But can understand if option 1 might conflict with how the image might be used otherwise and option 2 might conflict with the fact that the ticket is stored basically separate from the event, so perhaps option 3 should be it and will save me a lot of time anyway. Perhaps there can even be an option or setting allowing control over which of the above
3 options needs to be used.

At the moment there are just two reasons at this time to enter the woocommerce product:
1. selecting the featured image
2. adding a sales-price if the ticket is on sale

Since event tickets plus doesn't add a featured image, the first reason forces me to enter the WooCommerce product for every new ticket and costing me a lot of time and attention. Please solve it in the plugin!

Not adding a featured image is a problem because a thumbnail of the image is normally shown on several places, the most visible of which is the order list in the cart that now defaults to a cross to indicate that the image isn't found.

I know there is a bit of an overlap with an earlier idea, but that one was limited to only one solution. This just addresses the basic need. Please give me an automatically filled featured image in the ticket product!

Make it possible to add the WooCommerce Product featured image from within the ticket meta-block in the event. I would be perfectly happy with either of three solutions:
1 reusing the header image
2 reusing the featured image of the event
3 selecting a separate image for just this reason.

But can understand if option 1 might conflict with how the image might be used otherwise and option 2 might conflict with the fact that the ticket is stored basically separate from the event, so perhaps option 3 should be it and will save me a lot of time anyway.…

Ability to add a notification to the event organiser when someone RSVP's for an event, or purchases a ticket. We have a community organisation using tickets plus to manage RSVP's for events, and only have 10-15 people attending each event. They would love to be notified. At the moment we are using BCC on the ticket, but it would be more ideal to just have a notification that could be triggered.

The ability to collect the same attendee information when using the WooCommerce product of an Event Ticket.

There are times when I want to allow users to purchase tickets on the event single page as well as on a dedicated conference page. However, the attendee information is not available on the WooCommerce product of the Event ticket. As these are instantions of the same ticket, the attendee information should captured in a consistent manner and available in the attendee list.

Our tax laws stipulate that sales tax is charged based on where an event is located. Currently, we can only set the tax based on store or purchasers location. We will sometimes have a corporate head-office purchase tickets for an employee in another province. In the current setup the tax will be calculated incorrectly. It would be good to be able to specify the regional tax rate when you create a ticket.

In our events pre-sale is finishing 2 hours before event.
If there are 20 tickets left, which were not sold, it would be great, if there is way to show how many tickets people can buy at the venue/on the spot.

It would be extremely useful to have a test qrcode which can be used to test the event tickets plus app.
As well, it would be helpful to have a log of scans.
And the message for a completed scan should read "Ticket Checked In"
In fact, there is no reason why this message couldn't be customised.

There are situations where we want to issue special tickets to certain guests (e.g. family member of organising committee, specially invited guests). But we don't want this ticket to be visible to the general public. The solution is to give them a promo code. If the enter the promo code, the special ticket will be visible to checkout.

I think it's necessary have a feature to limit the number of RSVP registrations that a single user can do. It can be useful both with mandatory logging for RSVP registration and with guest users. It doesn't make sense that a single user can register more than one reservation.

- I am a customer who added multiple tickets to my WooCommerce shopping cart, I would like to confirm that I filled out the data for each ticket accurately before clicking Proceed to Checkout.
- I am a customer who realized that one of the multiple tickets in my cart has inaccurate attendee meta info. I would like to edit only that ticket, or at least remove it from my cart without removing all of the others.

SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

- When 2+ tickets are added to the cart, each one will appear as a separate item in the cart. The attendee meta information for each ticket will appear alongside it. This would imitate the way WooCommerce behaves when a "variable product" is added to the cart.

ETA: None yet -- This has not been slotted for any upcoming release at this time.

USER STORIES & GOALS

- I am a customer who added multiple tickets to my WooCommerce shopping cart, I would like to confirm that I filled out the data for each ticket accurately before clicking Proceed to Checkout.
- I am a customer who realized that one of the multiple tickets in my cart has inaccurate attendee meta info. I would like to edit only that ticket, or at least remove it from my cart without removing all of the others.

SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

- When 2+ tickets are added to the cart, each one will appear as a separate…

Can we have a Zapier integration that can zap a ticket registration through to Goto webinar once someone has registered for the webinar on the events calendar that are also registered on the goto webinar site.

Thank you for your votes and comments.
We would love to see more votes on this one.

Also, as it stands, please note that for RSVP and Event Tickets plus tickets, it is already possible to add them to posts, pages and custom post types (not via a shortcode, but by selecting the appropriate setting under the Events > Settings > Tickets tab)

I would like to see Wootickets integrate a list of default ticket profiles, where we can fill out the commonly used fields we re-type hundreds of times. Almost all of the ticket fields could be automatically populated based on a template, with changes and variations made as needed.

For my personal needs, 99% of the hundreds of tickets I create every month could be selected from a list of 8 profiles, with information being spit out for: names, description, price, start/end sales, stock, etc.

The two fields that would require some consideration for advanced functionality would be:

incremental SKU #
Set a base for the SKU plus automatically populated or incremented wild cards. For example, SKU# SAMPLE**** where the **** is populated with an incremental count (ex. SAMPLE0001, SAMPLE0002, etc.) or where the **** is populated with a unique ID (ex.. SAMPLEy6C9, SAMPLE9z2I, etc.)

You have already developed this functionality for Venues and Organizers, and it saves me TONS of time. I'd just like to see it replicated for tickets.

To best explain my idea (need) I will create a scenario to explain. At the present time when an event is added to the calendar the only way to activate ticket sales is to create a new ticket. For some this is not ideal. The same "event" may occur repeatedly but not following any consistent timeline and the same "ticket" may apply. This makes creating a recurring event impossible and also forces creation of a new ticket for the same thing. Example:

The same "event", in this case a class may be added to the calendar again in the same week, the next week, month etc. - but on different days of the week.

The "tickets" available would not change and it would be nice to be able to use the product ID from WooCommerce to add the tickets to the event.

Hope that makes sense.

I would like to see Wootickets integrate a list of default ticket profiles, where we can fill out the commonly used fields we re-type hundreds of times. Almost all of the ticket fields could be automatically populated based on a template, with changes and variations made as needed.

For my personal needs, 99% of the hundreds of tickets I create every month could be selected from a list of 8 profiles, with information being spit out for: names, description, price, start/end sales, stock, etc.

The two fields that would require some consideration for advanced functionality would be:

When using your awesome new app to scan tickets we cannot view what ticket type is being checked in.
Unfortunately I'm finding this out the day before our large event which has multiple ticket types available.
A simple notice when it scans to say what ticket (type) it is would be perfect.

Having the ability to check-in tickets via the new QR scan app is helpful, however all of our tickets have options available via Attendee Details that need to be shown. Shirt size for instance. If a summary of these details were displayed on QR scan it would stream line our check-in process.

The app is connected to the store with an API key. However with an event for today and one for tomorrow, people with tickets for tomorrow can attend today. There should be a way of limiting the scans to a selected event

Eventbrite and Facebook have an integration where you can buy tickets directly from the Facebook event page, which get processed by Eventbrite. Is this possible t create for The Events Calendar Plus? It would really give a boost to ticket sales.